Fat Bodies, Health and the Media
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- Raisborough1
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-28887-5
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- ISBN
- 9781137288868
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Fat Bodies interrogates how fat, weight and health interrelate in the production of responsible citizens. Contextualised in a neoliberal shaping of health, lifestyle culture and a series of obesity epidemics, this book makes two arguments. The first is that fat’s substance is related to its enduring stigmatising associations: thus contributing a materiality to stigma literature. The second, argues that a ‘fat sensibility’ informs our cultural literacies of weight. This broadens our critical grasp on stigma from hostile representations to examine the function of benevolent and purportedly benign representations.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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